too much to do
A word of advice:
If you decide to go to graduate school and you want to get a job as a professor in the field of Writing Studies/Rhetoric/Composition, this means you must do things like attend conferences. Our biggest conference, CCCC, happens right around Spring Break during the spring semester. What does this mean for a graduate student who is presenting at this conference (or in my case, ATTW, a conference for teachers of technical writing that is taking place at the same time)?
This means you will have to write a paper. But don't forget, you will still have to keep up with all your classes and research for the papers you are completing for your coursework. You will also have to continue teaching, and grading papers, and showing up for class (not to mention prepping). And you will also have to fulfill your other obligations: member of English Graduate Students Exec Committee, union member concerned about health care, singer in choir, taker of yoga classes, person who occasionally goes to church, etc. etc. etc. And perhaps your roommate might move out in the middle of things and so you'd have to purchase all those items that are now missing from your drawers, just so you could function day to day. All of this, and you might like to maintain a social life, seeing your friends and boyfriend every once in awhile.
And imagine if you had children to care for (hence the fact that I don't have a family). Being a superwoman is just about impossible.
So really what does this mean?
If you're like me, and you still haven't written your paper for the conference, it probably won't be as good as it could have been had you not had 20000000000 other things to do. I hope they take that into consideration during the question and answer period.
If you decide to go to graduate school and you want to get a job as a professor in the field of Writing Studies/Rhetoric/Composition, this means you must do things like attend conferences. Our biggest conference, CCCC, happens right around Spring Break during the spring semester. What does this mean for a graduate student who is presenting at this conference (or in my case, ATTW, a conference for teachers of technical writing that is taking place at the same time)?
This means you will have to write a paper. But don't forget, you will still have to keep up with all your classes and research for the papers you are completing for your coursework. You will also have to continue teaching, and grading papers, and showing up for class (not to mention prepping). And you will also have to fulfill your other obligations: member of English Graduate Students Exec Committee, union member concerned about health care, singer in choir, taker of yoga classes, person who occasionally goes to church, etc. etc. etc. And perhaps your roommate might move out in the middle of things and so you'd have to purchase all those items that are now missing from your drawers, just so you could function day to day. All of this, and you might like to maintain a social life, seeing your friends and boyfriend every once in awhile.
And imagine if you had children to care for (hence the fact that I don't have a family). Being a superwoman is just about impossible.
So really what does this mean?
If you're like me, and you still haven't written your paper for the conference, it probably won't be as good as it could have been had you not had 20000000000 other things to do. I hope they take that into consideration during the question and answer period.
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